Israel withdraws from Gaza, Grad attacks resume
After Israel withdrew from Gaza, the inevitable happened. As I noted earlier, Hamas claimed victory, and the attacks with Grad-type Katyusha rockets resumed.Hours after IDF soldiers returned to Israel from northern Gaza after completing the first stage of Operation Hot Winter, a Grad missile slammed into the seventh floor of an apartment building in central Ashkelon on Monday morning. Another two Grads hit the city, one landing near a kindergarten. 16 people were treated for shock after the morning attack.But Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert is claiming that this is not a one-time operation:
In addition, eight Kassam rockets landed in the Sderot area and four hit a neighborhood in the Eshkol region. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert emphasized Monday that the latest operation in Gaza was by no means the last.I wonder if Olmert put his head in Condi's lap like a good little puppy dog and asked permission yet. In the meantime, he continues to delude himself and to try to delude us, about Abu Mazen, the 'man of peace' and his 'good terrorists' in Fatah:
"We are in a state of war; the operation was not a one-off. It's not the first time we'll be going in or coming out," he told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee,
"I won't say what we are planning in the future, because I don't want to give our enemies a chance to prepare, but all the options are on the table. They'll know it when they feel it," continued Olmert.
Nevertheless, the prime minister stressed that Israel had to maintain the diplomatic track with the Palestinian Authority. "There is a leadership now in the West Bank that wants peace in a way that even Arab leaders we previously negotiated with and embraced didn't want it", the prime minister said. "Absence of negotiations would lead to a 'Gazaization' of the West Bank, and anyone who can't see this is lying to himself," he added.No, it's not the 'absence of negotiations' that will turn the 'West Bank' into Gaza, but the withdrawal of the IDF will turn the 'West Bank' into Gaza.
And the only way to stop the rocket fire from Gaza is 'reoccupation.' Olmert won't pay that price until the 'Palestinians' show they can reach North Tel Aviv.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:14 PM
3 Comments:
Carl - I have a feeling the majority of Israelis will finally turn against Ehud Olmert when the Grads reach Tel Aviv. The man is bankrupt both politically and morally to the point of obtuseness. He's doesn't seem to comprehend the country in a state of war with its cities burning and Jews being injured and killed. He is many things but a Jewish Winston Churchill Olmert ain't.
NormanF. Olmert doesn't make decisions or pull the strings. Whomever bankrolled his campaign to retain his position as Prime Minister after Sharon left the scene and decided he was the best marrionette to fill the position for the last elections - THEY make the real decisions, and those decisions have nothing to do with what's best for the Jewish People and everything to do with how they can make the biggest profit!
Yoel - I think you mean Israel's branja? They aren't the kind of people who live in places like Sderot and Ashkelon and so far their expensive livelihoods in Israel aren't threatened. The war to the south might as well be taking place in another country for all they care. Ehud Olmert responds to different kinds of pressures but like the fearful capos in the death camps, at the end of day, he knows his own position is far from secure and his is expendable. He's trying to put off his own demise as long as that is possible for him to do.
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